Another Prius in the family fleet

Quick story of my 24 year old daughter adding a 3rd Prius to our all-Toyota-since-'93 family fleet, joining myself (2010 @132k miles), 18 year old daughter ('07 at 167k) and wife ('05 Sienna @ 155k).

This spring she started getting anxious about her '99 Camry @ just a tick over 200k miles and by mid-summer decided a new-to-her Prius was in order. She asked me to help her shop, and in early September I came across a nice looking Blizzard Pearl 2011 over in Woodstock, Vt., stating excellent condition @ 53k miles. It had all dealer service records including my preferred oil changes at 5k intervals. After giving her a quick pulse and glide lesson and rundown on what to look for she headed over to check it out, and bought it immediately on the spot for $11k. My wife and I got saddled with going to pick it up and were stunned. It's the cleanest 5 year old car I've ever seen, immaculate inside and out, under the hood and under the car. Came with as new Ecopias and 4 nearly new Altimax snows. She's put 5k miles on it and it runs as new, not using any oil. I'm really quite jealous. I should have made her a deal on my 2010 and bought it for myself!

 

I pull the covers whenever I wash the cars. They allow a lot of dirt/salt to collect in the rim grooves, which in this region leads to corrosion and pitting in no time. The covers are actually in as incredible shape as the rest of the car!

The factory fill WS looked really good, too, which is different than my experiences with first time drains on our '07 and '10. On both of those the factory fill was pretty dark and nasty. Did inverter coolant straight away, too, although likely quite premature. As @edthefox5 likes to say, the inverter is the heartbeat of these little cars.

 

No heated seats, it's just a model II. I've never owned a car with heated seats and maybe it's a sign of age, but it's starting to sound really good.